The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, July 21, 1931, Page 8

THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, TUESDAY, JULY 21, 1931 Liquids Are Revealed ‘to Have Skins SOLUTION BETWEEN TRACKS SELF -OPENING ELECTRIC DOORS TRACKS FOR C. Dr. J. W. McBain of Leland Stanford to scoop the upper thousandth of an i tracks, is discovering new facts about the ty, using this “toy” railroad liquids placed between the emistry of solutions. SOAP BUBBLE AND TOY RAILWAY AID IN STUDY OF LIQUID ‘SKINS* Stanford Professor May Force from an area a yard long and three jinches wide. Revision of Fundamental | Films from water are found to be ontifi charged with electricity. Scientific Formula | ‘The few drops of water shaved off ‘are weighed and analyzed to one part Stanford University, Cal., July 21.—|in a million by comparing beams of. (®)—Soap bubbles and an electrically light passed through the cells of an equipped “toy” railway system are ‘nterferometer. helping to give science a better under- By th sts Dr. McBain belleves standing of the “skins” which cover he has pr that there is a differ- Uquids and solutions. ence in composition between the sur- These ordinarily considered ad-|face and the liquid on which it is juncts of the nursery already have | resting. performed a service’ in the lal Gibbs predicted that i: would be tories of Dr. J. W. McBain, pr eventually ascertained there would sor of chemistry, which it is believed |not be quite enough dissolved mole- may force a revision of one of the cules to cover the surface of the solu- fundamental formulas of science as|tion. Dr. McBain believes there are developed by Josiah Willard Gibbs of | two to four times this number in these} Yale. | cases. ‘The new studies involve slicing off, Gibbs also predicted the outside the upper thousandth inch. of the|layer of molecules on such solutions} surface of solutions. |as sugar and salt is pure water and ‘This is done by a microtome blade,| this, the Stanford scientist believes, as thin and sharp as a safety razor | he has confirmed. POOR UNCLE BIM = WE SAYS - HE'S GOING BACK YO AUSTRALIA— . WIS HEART |S BROKEN= 1M $0 AFRAID THAT WHEN THE WIDOW REALIZES TOM CARR IS' PENNILESS- SHE WILL COME BACK Yo BIM FOR NIS MONEY- AND HE WILL MAKE UP WITH HER AGAIN= SPUD, LOOK AT \ cxEEzix, THE SMOKE! 1 GOTTA FIND PETE. WELL, THINGS HAVE BEEN IZINDA SLOW SINCE YoU BOYS CAME UP HERE... 2 GOTTA SEE THAT YOU BOYS HANE SOME THRILLS AN’ EXCITEMENT....\NHAT. 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L HAVENT SEEN HIM SINCE BREAKFAST...GEE! \NE GOTTA DONT GIT EXcITED..... HE'S AROUND SOMEWHERE + COME TO THINK OF IT TL AINT SEEN HIM THIS blade, attached to a silver-plated car on the “toy” railroad. The water is trapped in a silver cylinder, much| as a railway engine takes up water in transit from a trough between the rails. The fluid touches only silver, gold and glass, which are chemically inert. The blade, moving at 25 miles an hour, cuts off from the quiescent sur- When bubbles collide and burst the electrical phenomena are very similar, on a miniature scale, to the atmos- pheric discharge between clouds. Believing that electrical effects were not reckoned with in the Gibbs formula, and that there is an elec- | trification of the surface in every in- stance with the movement or forma- tion or bursting of a bubble, Dr. Mc- BOAT RIDE AROUND face a film so thin that only about Bain . rned from moving bubbles to 50 drops of liquid are accumulated quiescent surfaces. also has power to revoke licenses for) violations. The law, as amended by the recent legislature, also imposes @ penalty on PERMITS T0 SELL |The purchaser must also destroy the |stamp when opening the package. : | The offense is a misdemeasor punish- Morris Reports More Licenses | able by a fine of $25 to $100 or 30 |days imprisonment or both. Issued Now Than Was the ‘Under the amended law, the attor- Case a Year Ago |ney general may call to his assistance {any state tax supervisor to carry out the provisions of the act. Morris has MOM’N POP ny HOPES ; OF REGAINING GINE UP THE GHOST IN THAT A total of 2,255 permits have been called on the tax supervisors to as- issued to cigarette dealers this month, | 5! according to figures announced Mon-| day by Attort Gi ‘al Mor-| 0s (pee eee : sag y ney General James Mor-| | Stickler Solution Dealers pay a license fee of $12.50)" 215)37 : O5lI73 for the privilege of selling cigarettes for the ensuing year. The permits issued so far are larger than the licenses granted up to this time last) | year. Administration and enforcement of the act is placed with the attorney | general. Since July 1 three permits have been revoked for violation of | the law providing for licensing and a| | three-cent tax on each package of 20 cigarettes. 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